heroku/WAL-E — Issue #12: print message on start while waiting for checkpoint
Author: fdr
Created: 2011-10-26 01:21:44+00:00
State: open

At least one person was mystified why it took so long to make any visible progress when doing backup-push. The reason is wal-e doesn't force a checkpoint from Postgres, waiting for one to happen naturally. This behavior should be reported at backup-push startup (or, alternatively, where psql is executed to this effect).